The findings, published in the Royal Society Open Science journal on Wednesday, reveals the extraordinary flexibility of birds ... and the beak assumes a new grasping position in front of the ...

Under these drastically changing conditions, the struggle to survive favored the larger birds with deep, strong beaks for opening the hard seeds. Smaller finches with less-powerful beaks perished.

Bird beaks come in all shapes and sizes, and through observing those differences we can learn a lot about them. Our education ...

“normal” beaks (examples shown of a petrel and a gull) and a bird with a tactile bill-tip organ (a tinamou, close relative of ostriches and emus and which has an ancestral bill-tip organ ...

Birds have feathers and a beak and lay hard-shelled eggs. Many birds are able to fly using their wings, but others such as ostriches are flightless and unable to fly. Some birds like penguins ...

An indoor Science Saturday program at Crossroads at Big Creek will focus on how the shape of a bird’s beak determines its food preferences. Held Feb. 1 at 2 pm, […] ...

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